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34 Must-Have Hot Rodding Toys From The 2010 SEMA Show-Plus Our Take On Where Things Are Going.
To many hot rodders, the SEMA trade show in Las Vegas is a yearly religious pilgrimage. Gearheads from shops, dealerships, manufacturers, retailers, and suppliers come from all over the globe to check out the gleaming new hot rod hardware, and to soak up the excitement on the famous Vegas strip. With any luck, the exhibiting manufacturers can sign up new dealers, take orders from existing ones, and forge relationships that last a lifetime. In order to do that successfully, companies go to great lengths to bring exciting new products to hot rodders like us.
In recent decades, SEMA has expanded to cover everything in the automotive aftermarket. You've got trucks and SUVs, off-roaders, sport compacts, diesels, electronics and entertainment, replacement tires, and entire buildings stuffed with 26-inch wheels. But in the beginning, SEMA was the place for hot rodders. Back in its infancy, SEMA was the primary gathering spot for many past and current hot rodding icons. If it weren't for the likes of pioneers like Vic Edelbrock, Ed Iskenderian, George Hurst, and Phil Weiand to name a few, you wouldn't currently have giants like GM, Ford, and Chrysler tripping over each other to bring you high-powered crate motors and special-edition concept cars.
The past three years have been rough on the economy, and the hot rodding world has not been exempt. New car sales, orders for speed parts, sales of enthusiast magazines, ad revenue, and hours of billed shop labor have all taken a dip, but we are beginning to see improvement, as hot rodders are gradually coming out of their spending slumber. One big sign: 1,541 new products were on display at SEMA in 2010, versus just 134 for 2009. These figures don't count the "unofficial" new products that weren't registered with and photographed by SEMA, but the difference is huge, nonetheless.
Manufacturers are trying to get ahead of the impending demand for cool, innovative speed parts, and in the hot rod realm the charge is clearly being led by the new Camaro, Mustang, and Challenger. In this day of green politics, it absolutely defies mainstream logic that such cars-and the buyers for them-exist, but here we are. Emotion is the driving force behind our infatuation with power, and it knows no political, racial, age, or national boundaries. What's more, the new breed of muscle cars draws upon powerful nostalgic cues. They remind us of better times and give us a legitimate feeling of hope. As car guys, we tend to see the world, and the range of possibilities for what we can be, through our hot rods, and that drives us to be faster and more agile.
New cars aside, there is plenty of headway being made on our cherished classics from the '60s and '70s. For one thing, muscle cars are increasingly getting the "street rod" treatment instead of being restored. They're also getting "race-prepped" with top-shelf engines, high-tech suspensions, and bigger tires, wheels, and brakes. The wealthy enthusiast who might have bought a European exotic a decade ago is building (or commissioning) a high-end, one-of-a-kind muscle car with exotic performance levels.
Another interesting trend: Black is the new billet. Twenty years ago, the rush away from chrome to billet opened a lot of new doors for some vendors, and left others behind. Now the rush is toward anything black or satin. From valve covers and air cleaners to carburetors and calipers, black is back. Maybe it's because we live in a darker, more sinister world? And what about chrome? Well, it's back in a big retro way. You can get a pile of chrome-plated trim pieces for your new Camaro or Mustang. Bumpers, badges, wheels, grilles, it's all there. Heck, you can even buy a new Challenger from the factory with what look like chrome Cragar S/Ss.
In fact, retro is a predominant theme throughout SEMA. New cars have adopted retro themes, while older classics are being reborn in historic livery. Hurst, Yenko, Shelby, and Mopar are some of the traditional names showing off new creations with the originals often sitting nearby. It's just as if nothing had changed in the intervening 40 years. It's cool for sure, but I sort of attribute it to the uncertainty of the economy, and the notion that we tend to cling to the warm feelings of the past when we're seeing tough times. Still, SEMA showed us this year that things are coming around, and the future is getting brighter for hot rodders of all colors.
We've only scratched the surface here, but if you want to see all 1,541 of the new products at the SEMA show, point your web browser to www.SEMADigital.com, and surf by category to your heart's content!
Coker Tire
Excelsior Stahl Sport
What It Is:
The world's first radial tires offered in sizes that match classic bias-ply profiles. Great for period-correct street rods and vintage racers that need a realistic-looking tire with modern construction and performance. Available in 20 sizes from 16- to 21-inch rim diameters. DOT approved.
Coker Tire
Wilwood Engineering
Road Race Corvette Braking Systems
What It Is:
Wilwood has developed the ultimate competition brake systems specifically designed for road racing with C5 and C6 Corvettes with production-based suspensions (PN 140-10226).
Wilwood Engineering
LS3/L92 Modular Intake Manifold
What It Is:
The Holley LS3/L92 Hi-Ram Modular Intake manifold system provides a cost-effective max-performance alternative to fabricated manifolds on popular LS engines with rectangular-port heads. Holley also showed its LS2 dual-quad mid-rise dual-plane intake manifold for carb and EFI.
Holley Performance Products
COMP Cams
2011 Ford Mustang 5.0L Camshafts
What It Is:
The industry's first aftermarket camshafts designed for the '11 Ford DOHC 5.0L Coyote four-valve V-8. These bumpsticks unlock a major performance upgrade for street and race '11 Mustangs.
COMP Cams
Wireless Remote Shock System
What It Is:
Adjustable shocks aren't new, but the ability to adjust them easily from the comfort of the cockpit is an idea that's relatively new. QA1's system allows adjustment of the damping rate for compression and rebound via a wireless remote-no hardwiring needed.
QA1 Motorsports
Billet Specialties
Mag Road Wheel
What It Is:
The Mag combines key elements like affordability, a soft-lip rim, and timeless style. It features either a polished or powdercoat gray center and is available in 17-, 18-, and 20-inch diameters. Each wheel is built to customer specs at no extra charge. Bolt patterns include 5x4.5, 5x4.75, and 5x5.
Billet Specialties, Inc.
Snow Performance
Comp-One Boost Cooler
What It Is:
The Snow Performance Comp-One (PN 48010) is the first water-methanol injection system complete with a performance tuner, virtual gauges, dashboard, virtual dragstrip, performance meter, and diagnostic code reader-tool. Why? By combining the boost cooler control circuitry with onboard diagnostics and tuning, you can maximize the performance of charge cooling.
Snow Performance
'08-Up Challenger Street-Fighter Converter
What It Is:
Designed for street/track enthusiasts, the StreetFighter torque converter for '08-10 Dodge Challengers brings launch rpm in line with performance enhancements on modified street machines.
Hurst Shifter For '10-Up Camaro
What It Is:
Add a touch of Hurst style to your '10-plus Camaro. The billet aluminum Comp shifter adds some needed beefcake to automatic-equipped fifth-gen Camaros with Hurst's iconic shifter (PN 538-0420). It replaces the shifter console cover and factory knob with Hurst's robust design.
Stainless Steel Hemi Rockers
What It Is:
The late-model Hemi valvetrain is inherently stable, being that it's a shaft system, but its die-cast construction and sliding tappets leave performance on the table when high lift and high rpm is introduced. PRW's Performance Quotient stainless steel shaft mount rocker arm system includes 16 rockers (17-4ph stainless steel with silicone bronze trunion bushings), hardened shafts, hold-downs, spacers, shims, and pushrod length checkers for about $1,400.
PRW Industries Inc.
Universal Stealth Fuel System
What It Is:
It's too easy to turn up the wick on some of today's factory muscle. Blowers, turbos, strokers, nitrous-all of them need fuel to stay alive and healthy. Turn your tank or fuel cell into a stealth tank by dropping in this assembly; it provides a high-horsepower in-tank solution for your fuel system.
Cadillac Valve Covers
What It Is:
As hot rodders search for even more intriguing ways to build cars, their journey takes them to unusual and wonderful places. Exploring our rich American motoring heritage inevitably means coming face to face with Cadillac. The Cadillac market might be small, but its supporters are ardent, and PML certainly qualifies as such with their all-new valve covers for 365, 390, and 429ci engines (PN 11073). The classic Cadillac script and seven fins are cast right into the cover. These covers feature a mid-height design that will clear most high-ratio roller rockers.
PML, Inc.
March Performance
Protrack Black Onyx Serpentine System
What It Is:
Did we mention that "black" is the new "billet"? March is certainly in step with all the latest automotive fashion trends, and they've responded with their Black Onyx billet aluminum serpentine system for small- and big-block Chevy. It's strong, compact, attractive, and can handle any accessory including power steering and A/C.
March Performance
Vette Steering Rack
What It Is:
Converts traditional worm-sector steering boxes to a lightweight, fast-acting rack-and-pinion setup with one easy bolt-on. Designed for '58-82 Corvettes using either factory or aftermarket steering columns. Small- and big-block applications are available.
Unisteer Performance Products
Darton Sleeves
Camaro V-6 Mid Sleeve
What It Is:
It's a crazy world we live in. You know the one-where 304hp V-6 Camaros roam the streets with impunity. The Camaro's stock V-6 makes a lot of snot-pushing the 3,800-pound car to 60 mph in a scant 5.9 seconds-but the block is close to the limit if big mods are planned. That's why Darton has developed a much stronger cylinder sleeve kit (PN 500-200) for the direct-injection 3.5-liter. The kit converts the block to a closed-deck, wet-sleeve block, and increases bore size and the ability to handle unlimited amounts of boost.
Darton Sleeves
Corrected HEI Distributor Cap
What It Is:
ACCEL's new corrrected distributor cap (PN 8141R) eliminates crossed spark plug wires on GM HEI-equipped V-8s for a clean, uncluttered engine compartment. It's not magic-the conductor leads are internally resequenced!
Mr. Gasket/Prestolite Performance
Eagle Specialty Products
Pontiac Stroker Kit
What It Is:
The Pontiac division officially died three days before the 2010 SEMA show opened, but Eagle hasn't forgotten its followers. They now offer stroker kits for Pontiac 400 and 455 engines in 4.250-, 4.350-, and 4.500-inch stroke configurations. Goodies include a 4340 forged steel crankshaft, 6.800-inch H-beam rods, flat-top Mahle pistons and rings, and Clevite bearings.
Eagle Specialty Products
Mahle Motorsports
Ford 5.0L PowerPak
What It Is:
The new 5.0L Ford engine makes power like falling off a log, but you can get into trouble quick with the stock cast pistons. Mahle has all-new 5.0L specific forgings in 9.5, 11.1, and 12.0:1 compression ratios that will handle up to 700 hp safely. They're available with domes for normally aspirated, and inverted domes for boosted applications. Kits include dual-coated forged slipper skirt pistons, German steel pins, race-proven round wire locks, and an ultra-flat performance ring set.
Mahle Motorsports
Muscle Car Drop Spindles
What It Is:
Lower your stance without sacrificing suspension geometry or safety. Belltech's new 2-inch drop spindles fit '67-69 Camaro, '68-72 Chevelle, and all GM A-, F-, and X-bodies (PN 2202). They're a direct factory replacement modular design and accept many brake upgrades. Forged steel construction.
KW Automotive
North America
Lokar Performance
Drive-by-Wire Electronic Throttle Control
What It Is:
Lokar partnered with Williams Controls in developing the first programmable electronic drive-by-wire throttle pedal for the automotive aftermarket (PN DBW-6500). It's available for GM, Ford, and Mopar applications.
Lokar Performance Products
Rocket Racing
Igniter Wheel
What It Is:
The revival of the famed Rocket Racing wheel brand is well under way, and the latest design-the Igniter-is lighting the fire of passion anew. Inspired by innovative gearheads who streaked across dry lakebeds for speed and glory, the cast Igniter is available in gray, polished, and as-cast finishes.
Rocket Racing Wheels
HD Hero 960
What It Is:
Are you the next John Force or Mario Andretti? Do you have the intense need to show the entire world your motoring exploits in high-def sound and video? GoPro is the company that can satisfy your ego, and they've got the new HD HERO 960 for you. Just slap it on the side of your car, helmet, or rollbar, and go. It features professional-grade 960p, 720p, and WVGA resolutions, 5MP photo capture, and incredible sound recording.
Trick Flow Specialties
Ford 351 Cleveland R-Series Manifold
What It Is:
The Cleveland side of the Ford small-block family is often overlooked in spite of a huge following. TFS has always been strong on the Ford front and has introduced several new Cleveland-based intakes, including this EFI R-Series intake manifold for Ford 351 Cleveland (PN TFS-5161114).
Trick Flow Specialties
Top Street Performance
Ford FE HEI Distributor
What It Is:
In an age of high-output, high-tech factory hardware, it's comforting to know that companies are out there who are slaving night and day to make our classic engines even more competitive. Top Street Performance showed their new Ford FE HEI one-wire distributor at SEMA (PN JM6508R), and it sure does simplify the ignition setup on one of our favorite classics.
Top Street
Big-Block Chevy/LS Water Pump Conversion
What It Is:
Put any long-style big-block Chevy water pump on any LS engine using Moroso's trick billet adapters. These simple bolt-on pieces free up space, and allow the use of a cost-effective remote electric water pump. The kit includes billet aluminum adapter blocks, fasteners, O-rings, and 12-AN fittings
Moroso Performance Products
Brilliant Solutions Car Kit
What It Is:
Getting your car in shape for springtime or a big show usually entails scrounging for a collection of car care products that may or may not be appropriate for the job. Meguiar's has put all the right stuff in one box to simplify everything; Meguiar's New Car Kit provides a complete, affordable, easy-to-use solution to restore neglected paint finishes.
Flaming River
'64-67 Chevelle Rack-and-Pinion
What It Is:
Flaming River's rack-and-pinion cradle kit uses a travel bar design to stabilize and properly position the steering pivot points to the original location, and to deliver the original turning radius. This kit also includes a sway bar for improved handling on curves.
Flaming River Industries
Classic Industries
'63-66 Corvette Steering Wheel
What It Is:
The feeling of pride in your ride is either diminished or increased when you lay hands on the wheel, and if it's a midyear Corvette, the tiller can be a make-or-break proposition. Classic Industries now has genuine teak steering wheels for '63-66 Corvettes (PN R5108) This quality reproduction of the original simulated teak plastic steering wheel includes the steering wheel, hub assembly, horn contact, and Bow Tie horn cap.
Classic Industries
MSD Ignition
EZ-1 Digital Points Kit
What It Is:
In a world of carefree, high-tech ignition systems, why would anybody want to bother with a points-style ignition characterized by low output, questionable reliability, and frequent maintenance? It looks stock, that's why. Only now, MSD has a stealthy digital points kit that looks stock, but upgrades your ignition to a breakerless, all digital, high-output system with a one-wire connection.
MSD Ignition
Lakewood Performance
Drag Shocks for '08-Up Dodge Challenger
What It Is:
Another first in the industry: 70/30 and 90/10 drag struts for the late-model LX-body Dodge Challenger. These bolt-on pieces maximize weight transfer for street/strip and all-out drag cars by improving weight transfer at launch.
Mr. Gasket/Prestolite
1964-72 GM A-Body Suspension
What It Is:
Chassisworks' new g-Bar/g-Link suspension installs easily in any GM A-body (Chevelle, Cutlass, GTO, Skylark) using a FAB9 or OEM housings. A huge selection of options are available including urethane or TrueCenter ends, steel or aluminum links, and VariShock coilovers or air suspension.
2011 Mustang GT Super Damper
What It Is:
It doesn't take much to turn up the wick on Ford's new affordable supercar, and you'll find out very quickly that the stock damper isn't safe-or legal-for NHRA competition. ATI-a world leader in SFI-approved dampers for drag racing-has the solution with their Super Damper for '11 Mustang 5.0L engines.
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Leaping the Great Wall
China embraces craft beer
Finding Great Leap Brewing is a distinctly Chinese affair. The journey to the vanguard of Beijing's nascent craft brewing scene involves leaving a historic tourist strip and wending your way into the old residential city. Here, eccentric old Communist China lingers alongside evidence of the country's new capitalist dawn, encapsulating what makes life in the country known as the Middle Kingdom so textured.
Pass deeper into the narrow alleyways formed by traditional hutong houses. You will probably have to stop and ask a toothless crone for directions. Expect her to look in bafflement at your badly translated address before guessing what you're after and pointing you in the right direction. Things will continue to look less and less likely until you reach a funky-smelling communal toilet. As with many of these Beijing institutions, the convenience bears a notice written in "Chinglish"—the nonsensical cross between Mandarin and English that plagues local signage. "CAUTION DAOP DOWN, OVNTILATING" you'll be warned, above pictures that suggest you shouldn't enter unless you're wearing a gas mask, biohazard suit and safety harness.
Thankfully, it all becomes worthwhile as you turn and see Great Leap's premises opposite. It's the place that really kicked off these exciting times for discerning drinkers in the capital. An intriguing marriage of America and China, the brewery tap room is in an old-fashioned, converted courtyard residence, and customers can get tasty keg beer with such local ingredients as Sichuan peppercorns and Chinese tea.
Young Cleveland native Carl Setzer established Great Leap in October 2010, and his inventive ales served in a rustic setting have proved a hit. Slow Boat Brewery soon followed, with General Manager Chandler Jurinka and brewmaster Dan Hebert sending their first kegs of American-style classics off from the brewery just north of Beijing in late 2011.
From a Whisper to a Roar
They are not the first to bring craft beer to the Chinese people. Shanghai already had the Boxing Cat brewpub, and Typhoon Brewery has been whipping up a whirlwind of cask ale since 2009 in Hong Kong, for example. But Great Leap and Slow Boat are more notable in that they are gunning for far broader distribution than just their own taprooms. That will most definitely be achieved later this year, with Great Leap's output set to increase from 1,000 hectoliters annually to 15,000. Its partnership with German operation Drei Kronen will see Great Leap beer sold in bottles and on draft in bars across Beijing and beyond. In addition, Great Leap will open its own second retail location in Beijing. Here in the capital of a very revolutionary country, a craft beer revolution is fermenting.
To understand how and why this is happening in 2012, you have to go back to 1978, when China's political "opening-up and reform" opened the doors to capitalism and foreign cultural influences. Shops and restaurants began to appear, but, understandably, it has taken a while for business conditions and consumer tastes to develop to the state where artisanal craft beer is appreciated.
As far back as the early 1990s, a large number of German-style brewpubs and beer halls backed by the likes of Paulaner have attracted Beijing's nouveau riche, for whom quaffing exotic European liquids is as good as a Rolex on the wrist for showing they've made it. These places also happen to be oases of decent beer among huge-selling domestic Chinese brands that range in quality from serviceable to toxic. Many Chinese have joined the huge number of tourists and Western expats in calling for more good beers. Meanwhile, the hospitality infrastructure and expertise in big cities has developed to where more international beer brands and start-up brewers are willing to enter the massive but unproven Chinese market.
A sign of the times was when Czech Pub opened in Beijing in April 2011, serving three varieties of Staropramen on draft. The management had found it difficult to persuade one of the Czech Republic's famous breweries to put its cherished product on a boat to the other side of the world and risk hard-earned reputations in the hands of untrained bar staff and unappreciative customers. Eventually, Staropramen accepted.
For Czech Pub Manager Marcel Buchar, it's simple. Customers in China are demanding more quality and variety in their drinks, and there is unquestionable appeal for world-renowned premium products. "I am not afraid to serve Czech beer on Mars, on the Moon, because it's the best," he says. "Between us and good U.S. beer, there's plenty of room in Beijing."
The fact Buchar has recently added imported draft and bottled beer from the Czech Republic's Bernard Brewery alongside Staropramen indicates his confidence is well-placed.
Seizing the Initiative
Things really got moving, though, when a change of seasons made sitting in Great Leap's courtyard bar more attractive. The brewery's local media attention raised its profile and helped things boom from mid-2011.
You might think taking the first hop, skip and jump toward Great Leap was nerve-racking for Carl Setzer, now 30 years old. But, as he tells it, he almost stumbled upon what has become a successful business. "We did this with not particularly high expectations, without a lot of economic motivation," he explains. "I was a manager for a consulting company in China. Brewing was a hobby I had been doing at home for about a year when my wife suggested we should try something bigger.
"Originally, I wanted to do Great Leap as a private club for friends, but I saw very quickly there was a need for what we were producing. Within months, I had resigned from consulting to do this full time. And when we decided to do distribution, it was based on bar owners coming in every week and asking us to put beers into their places."
Setzer believes China's beer market is in a similar situation to the one faced in America 20 years ago. Tastes are starting to develop away from conventional branded lagers, and good times are coming for discerning drinkers and the brave craft brewers prepared to be first on the scene.
For this reason, he is far from afraid of the competition presented by Slow Boat, actually welcoming it as more momentum behind diversified beer. "I come from Cleveland, home to 400,000 people and 17 microbreweries. There are 20 million people in Beijing. Don't tell me my business is going to go under because someone else hangs a shingle," he says, adding that he is making beer tailored for Chinese drinkers, while Slow Boat's seem more designed for expat thirsts.
"Everyone's going to benefit," Setzer says, "because any future micro that opens will reach someone I couldn't. That person is going to be intrigued, Google 'beer in Beijing' and end up coming to one of my bars or buying my bottles."
The guys at Slow Boat agree. "This is the right time for microbreweries in China," says Chandler Jurinka, who first came to the Middle Kingdom as a student, way back in 1993, after growing up in suburban Washington, D.C. "When Dan and I started talking about opening a brewery, Great Leap didn't exist. The day Carl opened, we were both elated and a little disappointed. We thought we were going to be first, but then we also realized we must be along the right track if someone else was doing what we were doing."
It's also true that Slow Boat has slightly different ambitions from Great Leap. While Setzer makes wacky China-accented brews, Dan Hebert is happy to make the straight-down-the-line United States classics he loves. "Growing up in Oregon, that's what I know," he says. "Because they're exotic, the beers appeal to Chinese on that level alone."
Perhaps more importantly, Jurinka and Hebert are hoping a long search for their own bar will result in a more polished, Western-style venue than Great Leap's—"a bar/restaurant that wouldn't be out of place in the Pacific Northwest, with customer service, great food, professional finishings, 12 taps and comfortable seating," as Jurinka puts it. In the meantime, Slow Boat beers are pouring full-time at a handful of Beijing venues, and—like Great Leap—the brewery shows off its beers around the city's bars via regular "pop-up events."
Homebrewers Join the Fray
Whether or not Slow Boat has found a downtown HQ by the time you read this, there are likely to be more start-ups following these brewing forerunners. With awareness about craft beer raised, aficionados in Beijing have come out in force and formed what is surely China's first homebrewing organization. The Beijing Homebrewing Society has held monthly meetings since February.
They are disciples of Great Leap, Slow Boat and the world's more venerable brewers, and are spreading the word. The club aims to convince others of the joys of brewing, as a craft beer scene builds up in China. The group's president, New Yorker Jake Wickham, explains: "I like to be in the middle of a beer movement, watch it grow from the ground up. It is very gratifying to be raising passion and beer IQ among the general public."
Who knows, Beijing's next commercial craft brewer could be among the society's ranks. Maybe the city will even see its first micro of note helmed by a Chinese national—there are a number of local beer fans at the meetings.
This drive behind homebrewing is also largely thanks to Great Leap. Wickham had been wanting to start the brew club for two years before Setzer made it worthwhile by supplying brewing kit and ingredients to those interested. Such supplies would have been difficult to source in China (and small bags of brown powder in a suitcase difficult to get past customs officials).
Homebrewing simply didn't exist as a hobby in Beijing until this year. But there is now strong appetite for learning the fine art, judging by the prices people are paying for the homebrewing courses Great Leap has begun to offer. As Setzer is not concerned about professional competition, he is open to giving people a pastime that could have them drinking experimental brews in their kitchens instead of his bar. "Some of the people I've taught have become our most loyal customers," he says. "That's maybe because they learn how hard it is! But also it's a case of introducing people to good beer, the principle that students will teach their friends, who will become interested."
Brewers vs. Chinese Bureaucracy and Conservatism
Certainly, there was a spell where it was useful for Great Leap to develop ways to make money other than by distribution. When Setzer ran afoul of licensing authorities last year, it was just the latest development causing observers to wonder how far a foreign-led beer movement can develop in a country that is notorious for its bureaucracy and conservatism.
Some would classify the lawmakers as wary of letting foreigners have too much influence. Expat barmen tell tales of hospitality businesses where Chinese have been allowed to aggressively oust their Western partners (incompetence, the theory goes, closes most of them soon after), or where bars getting too big for their britches have been shut down overnight. Such concerns must have flashed through the minds of the people at Great Leap when they were ordered to put the brakes on fledgling distribution in 2011.
Long before Setzer had partnered with Drei Kronen, he had a first stab at scaling up production. He established a brewery near the Great Wall, applied for distribution rights and, presto, Great Leap beers started to appear on bars outside of his hutong venue. But then, in the wake of several milk safety scandals, there was a reshuffle in the government bodies responsible for licensing food and beverage distribution. Setzer was forced to rethink.
He picks ups the story: "Last year, in March, the health and safety bureau were stripped of their ability to license production facilities, and that's who we had applied with. Our license application was canceled.
"The rights to give licenses then passed to the quality and technology bureau. They said: 'We'll expedite your license for this little space [the original brewpub], but that will be it. Or you can have your beer tested right now and try to qualify to go big. If it fails, you'll be in a lot of trouble.' That was the decision we had to make in November."
It's a barely concealed secret that some disreputable domestic businesses would have covertly continued distribution unlicensed. But that was not the path for Great Leap. "There are always ways to lie in Beijing, some bottled water manufacturer who can tuck your beer under his bottles and distribute it for you," Setzer says. "But that's not the fugitive life I want for my wife and kid.
"You have to make a decision. Did I leave a six-figure corporate job to be a bartender, or did I leave to build a brand and a future for beer culture in Beijing? I left to do the latter."
So he opted for the make-or-break choice of accepting the test from the new gatekeepers. The brewery chief explains: "In the back of my head, I was terrified. Even if the beer came back qualified 'Good,' they don't have any responsibility to tell me that. They could say it was contaminated just because they don't want the headache."
Thankfully for Great Leap Brewing and Beijing's beer drinkers, the refreshingly honest approach paid off. "We had dinner with the bureau right before Chinese New Year," Mandarin-speaking Setzer remembers. "Lord knows I've never been complimented by a government official before, but they said: 'You were really helpful when we came to tell you about the changes in regulation.' They even told my wife: 'We've never seen a brewery this size be this clean.'"
Great Leap's product was passed as "Excellent" and, the company's expansion into distribution is restarting on a much bigger scale. The site at the Great Wall has ceased operating. The deal with Drei Kronen has given rise to The Bavarica Brewing Co. Its first kegs of Great Leap beer are due by October, and its bottles by December.
As Great Leap and Slow Boat grow, the chances of finding excellent, well-stocked bars in Beijing and other Chinese cities are sure to improve for visitors and residents alike. Here's hoping the development of beer culture in China can go hand in hand with the development of the country as a whole. And maybe even its public toilets.
Nick Yates
Nick Yates spent years reporting on the drinks market in his native England before 2010, when he moved to Beijing. His beer column appears in the city's Time Out magazine.


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All Hallows Eve, or Hallowe'en for short, is one of the most controversial and misunderstood holidays celebrated in the United States—its controversy owing in large part to its misunderstanding. More so than the recent "War on Christmas" that may or may not be raging across the country, or the most important of all Christian holidays—Easter—blatantly named after the pagan goddess (Eostre), Halloween tends to separate Americans into those who enjoy it and find it harmless and those who disdain it and find it demonic. Interestingly enough, both groups tend to base their ideas about Halloween on the same erroneous "facts" about its origins.
A quick perusal of the internet (once you have gotten by the commercialized sites selling costumes and the like) will offer the following generalizations about the holiday, taken for granted by most folks as historical truth.
Common ideas from a secular and/or Neopagan perspective:
- Halloween developed from the pan-Celtic feast of Samhain (pronounced "sah-ween")
- Samhain was the Celtic equivalent of New Years
- This was a time when the veil between the living and dead was lifted
- It becomes Christianized as "All Hallows Day" (All Saints Day)
- The eve of this holy day remained essentially Pagan
- Celebrating Halloween is innocent fun
Common ideas from an Evangelical Christian perspective (which would accept the first five of the above):
- Halloween is Pagan in origin and outlook
- It became intertwined with the "Catholic" All Saints Day
- It celebrates evil and/or the Devil
- It glorifies death and the macabre
- Celebrating Halloween is blasphemous, idolatrous, and harmful
Even more "respectable" sites like those from History.com and the Library of Congress continue to perpetuate the Pagan-turned-Christian history of Halloween despite scarce evidence to support it, and considerable reason to be suspicious of it.
To be sure, like most legends, this "history" of Halloween contains some kernel of fact, though, again like most things, its true history is much more convoluted and complex.
The problem with Halloween and its Celtic origins is that the Celts were a semi-literate people who left only some inscriptions: all the writings we have about the pre-Christian Celts (the pagans) are the product of Christians, who may or may not have been completely faithful in their description and interpretation. Indeed, all of the resources for ancient Irish mythology are medieval documents (the earliest being from the 11th century—some 600 years after Christianity had been introduced to Ireland).
It may be the case that Samhain indeed marked the Irish commemoration of the change in seasons "when the summer goes to its rest," as the Medieval Irish tale "The Tain" records. (Note, however, that our source here is only from the 12th century, and is specific to Ireland.) The problem is that the historical evidence is not so neat.
A heavy migration of Irish to the Scottish Highlands and Islands in the early Middle Ages introduced the celebration of Samhain there, but the earliest Welsh (also Celtic) records afford no significance to the same dates. Nor is there any indication that there was a counterpart to this celebration in Anglo-Saxon England from the same period.
So the best we can say is that, by the 10th century or so, Samhaim was established as an Irish holiday denoting the end of summer and the beginning of winter, but that there is no evidence that November 1 was a major pan-Celtic festival, and that even where it was celebrated (Ireland, Scottish Highlands and Islands), it did not have any religious significance or attributes.
As if the supposed Celtic origins of the holiday are uncertain enough, its "Christianization" by a Roman Church determined to stomp out ties to a pagan past are even more problematic.
It is assumed that because the Western Christian churches now celebrate All Saints Day on November 1st—with the addition of the Roman Catholic All Souls Day on November 2nd—there must have been an attempt by the clergy of the new religion to co-opt and supplant the holy days of the old. After all, the celebrations of the death of the saints and of all Christians seem to directly correlate with the accumulated medieval suggestions that Samhain celebrated the end and the beginning of all things, and recognized a lifting of the veil between the natural and supernatural worlds.
The problem is that All Saints Day was first established by Pope Boniface IV on 13 May, 609 (or 610) when he consecrated the Pantheon at Rome. It continued to be celebrated in Rome on 13 May, but was also celebrated at various other times in other parts of the Western Church, according to local usage (the medieval Irish church celebrated All Saints Day on April 20th).
Its Roman celebration was moved to 1 November during the reign of Pope Gregory III (d. 741), though with no suggestion that this was an attempt to co-opt the pagan holiday of Samhain. In fact, there is evidence that the November date was already being kept by some churches in England and Germany as well as the Frankish kingdom, and that the date itself is most probably of Northern German origin.
Thus the idea that the celebration of All Saints Day on November 1st had anything to do either with Celtic influence or Roman concern to supersede the pagan Samhain has no historical basis: instead, Roman and Celtic Christianity followed the lead of the Germanic tradition, the reason for which is lost to history.
The English historian Ronald Hutton concludes that, while there is no doubt that the beginning of November was the time of a major pagan festival that was celebrated in all of the pastoral areas of the British Isles, there is no evidence that it was connected with the dead, and no proof that it celebrated the new year.
By the end of the Middle Ages, however, Halloween—as a Christian festival of the dead—had developed into a major public holiday of revelry, drink, and frolicking, with food and bonfires, and the practice of "souling" (a precursor to our modern trick-or-treating?) culminating in the most important ritual of all: the ringing of church bells to comfort the souls of people in purgatory.
The antics and festivities that most resemble our modern Halloween celebrations come directly from this medieval Christian holiday: the mummers and guisers (performers in disguise) of the winter festivals also being active at this time, and the practice of "souling" where children would go around soliciting "soul cakes" representing souls being freed from purgatory.
The tricks and pranks and carrying of vegetables (originally turnips) carved with scary faces (our jack o' lanterns) are not attested to until the nineteenth century, so their direct link with earlier pagan practices is sketchy at best.
While the Celtic origins of Samhain may have had some influence on the celebration of Halloween as it begin to take shape during the Middle Ages, the Catholic Christian culture of the Middle Ages had a much more profound effect, where the ancient notion of the spiritual quality of the dates October 31st/November 1st became specifically associated with death—and later with the macabre of more recent times.
Thus modern Halloween is more directly a product of the Christian Middle Ages than it is of Celtic Paganism. To the extent that some deny its rootedness in Christianity or deride its essence as pagan is more an indication of how these groups feel about medieval Catholic Christianity than Celtic Paganism (about which we know so very little).
And to the extent that we fail to realize just how Christian many of these practices and festivities were, we fail to see how much the Reformation and later movement of pietism and rationalism have been successful in redefining exactly what "Christian" is.
As such, Halloween is no less Christian and no more Pagan than either Christmas or Easter.
Happy trick-or-treating!


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There is another round of big changes happening to the restaurant scene in downtown Fernandina Beach Once in a while, a business will fold and people will move on. I love it when the new business opens up!
Luigi's Trattoria was just a couple of blocks from the Addison and provided a great Italian meal served in their tiny dining room, the front porch or in the big open-air piazza in the back of the restaurant. Giovanna no longer operates the Trattoria in this location and the building was looking a little rundown.
Enter Mark and Teresa of Nana Teresa's Bake Shop. They bake, they make cookies and cakes and they are moving into the old Trattoria. This might just be the next bright spot in our vibrant downtown where you can enjoy fresh baked goods in the shady piazza on a sunny afternoon.
The other movers and shakers in the restaurant world? Bonito Grill and Sushi closed last year and is soon to be re-opened as Palate. Raw bar up front with a full menu in the back. I know these people, they make great food.
O'Kane's Irish Bar closed last year as well but new life is coming. A couple of local restaurant owners have decided to expand their workload and will soon open a brew pub in the old O'Kane's location. Crazy people but they make great food and hopefully great beer.
With all the changes going on downtown you just have to hope, that when the music stops, everyone has a storefront through which to do business.


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I've spent many a summer's holiday winding up new found German friends with the went-down-with-the-ark joke of: (clears throat)
Me (in comic Gestapo accent): 'You Germans make the verst sausages in the verld'
Helga (in actual Gestapo accent): 'Nein! We make ze BEST sausages in ze verld!'
Me: 'no, you make the VERST sausages in the verld'
Helga: 'NEIN. Ve make ze BEST...' etc etc (repeat whole thing indefinitely)
So you would think the old 'wurst sounds like worst' gag would be a bit over in 2013.
Nope, you'll be slapping your thighs in rhapsody to learn, it's happily alive and well, and used as the main super-pun in the Herman Ze German brand, a well loved little German sausage place in that little street going down to Embankment station thats always full of tourists and people trying to impress first dates by taking them to Gordon's wine bar.
Nicely managing to side-step the hotdog craze of a couple of years ago (remember that?), Herman ze German has been quietly knocking out his currywurst for a while now, and I'm not ashamed to say I've been to him a few times, and not only when I'm drunk. A quick portion of Herman's hot & greasy frankfurter before say, a boozy night out has often saved myself from ending up worse for wear on many occasion.
So imagine my delight when I discover that HzG was to open another sausage shop, this time in Soho!
Today was my first visit, and I'm happy to say I'll be back. The interior design has unsurprisingly decided to go down the general stripped-back industrial retro shack look, with lots of un-planed wood, reclaimed style tiles and lighting and all that, but hey, who doesn't. I'm so used to restaurants having a design plan that simply says 'make it look like the last 5 trendy places' that I'd honestly be shocked if someone had the balls any more to decorate their place with anything different.
But anyway. The menu is short (of course, it is London and post-millenium) and to be honest I would have liked this one to have had a few more variations, or sides, or SOMETHING to make the simplicity of sausage and chips a little more…varied? As usual, I asked the server what the 'best thing to have' was, and was recommended the smoked sausage, with fries and medium heat curry sauce.
What can I say? Great intense sauce, deep flavoured sausage and excellent, crispy, salty, moreish fries.
It was lunchtime so I didn't drink alcohol, but they did seem to have a good selection of beer.
If I hadn't been so hungry, or greedy, I'd have gone for the hilarious-but-utterly-offensively-sexist-to-some-flat-shoe-wearers 'no carbs, fraulein?' special lighter menu of sausage & salad. In fact, I was a bit sad they didn't seem to offer salad as a side.
Nice touches: Herman insisting on calling everything 'ze' - 'ze sink' etc, it seems the Germans are learning our feted English humour after all. Also a sink in the main room, presumably to wash your hands on the way out?
It's great, really. One thing I really really rate here though are the fries. Everyone bangs on about who has the best fries, but I reckon Herman's are up there.


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Boxer Mayweather due to begin Vegas jail sentence
By KEN RITTER | The Associated Press Thu, May 31, 2012 4:20 PM EDT
LAS VEGAS (AP) Free time is about to run out for Floyd Mayweather Jr., who is due to begin a three-month jail sentence in Las Vegas stemming from a hair-pulling, arm-twisting attack in September 2010 on the mother of three of his children.
The unbeaten five-division champion's legal and ring advisers weren't immediately commenting Thursday about Mayweather's scheduled Friday morning surrender before Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Melissa Saragosa.
The judge sentenced him Dec. 22 for his guilty plea to reduced charges in the domestic battery case.
Mayweather's lawyers, Karen Winckler and Richard Wright, said previously they didn't plan to seek another postponement or delay.
Mayweather, now 35, was initially due to begin his sentence Jan. 6. But Saragosa agreed at the last minute to let him remain free long enough to fight Miguel Cotto on May 5 in Las Vegas. The fighter who goes by the nickname ''Money'' won the bout and a guaranteed $32 million. Cotto was paid $8 million.
Mayweather's stint in the high-rise Clark County Detention Center in Las Vegas is expected to limit his ability to train for another fight.
At least for the first week, Mayweather will be segregated for his protection from the other 3,200 inmates, Las Vegas police Officer Bill Cassell said. He'll get one hour of exercise time a day outside his cell.
Saragosa said when she sentenced Mayweather that she was particularly troubled that he threatened and hit ex-girlfriend Josie Harris while their two sons watched. The boys were 10 and 8 at the time. The older boy ran out a back door to fetch a security guard in the gated community.
However, the judge accepted the plea deal that avoided trial on felony and misdemeanor charges that could have gotten Mayweather 34 years in state prison if he had been convicted on all counts.
Mayweather's pending jail term will be capped at 87 days. Saragosa gave him credit for three days previously served.
Mayweather also was ordered to complete a yearlong domestic violence counseling program, 100 hours of community service and pay a $2,500 fine.
It was not immediately clear Thursday if those requirements had been met.
Harris's lawyer, Charles Kelly, declined to comment on Mayweather's scheduled surrender. Harris and the three children now live in Southern California.
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Happy Friday all! I am happy to announce this little project to you. I was asked by Steve & Michelle from Twig Creative to help design a new child's rocker and here they are. I really wanted to use colors that parents wouldn't mind having mixed in with their own furniture and textures that were timeless. I'm pleased with the outcome and hope you are too!
A simple design with either walnut stained wood or white washed wood and industrial grey wool felt, these well constructed (and handmade) rockers are comfortable as well as stylish. My son immediately claimed the dark one, the boy knows what he likes.
And lucky for you we are giving one of these dark wood rockers and a black/gold camera away to celebrate their new release!
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News | February 10, 2005
Physicists Hear High-Tech Whistle While They Work
Why the big fuss about an odd sound? It seems this breakthrough might eventually lead to enhanced earthquake studies and more accurate navigation systems, including the Global Positioning System (GPS).
It all starts with one slippery liquid helium-4. Ultra-cold helium-4 becomes a superfluid, meaning it flows without friction. The scientists squashed it through an array of apertures 1,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair. The liquid whooshed faster and faster, until it reached a critical velocity. At that point, in a strange phenomenon, a microscopic quantum whirlpool dashed across each aperture, carrying away some of the helium-4's flow energy. This abruptly slowed the flow. The fluid repeatedly sped up and slowed down, creating vibrations that produced a whistling sound going from high to low.
A recording of the sound, called a quantum whistle, is available online at: http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/technologies/whistle.html.
"This whistle caught us by surprise," said UC Berkeley physics professor Dr. Richard Packard. "It turns out a single aperture will not make the whistle, because of random speed fluctuations. Our experiment shows all the flows through the holes are acting together, coherently, producing the whistle. We suspect it's like hearing thousands of crickets chirping in unison on a summer night."
Packard said this new phenomenon might lead to improved whistling superfluid navigation gyroscopes that detect extremely small rotational motion. As their motion changes, the whistle's volume would change. This would be especially useful on submarines or airplanes in regions where GPS signals are unavailable.
The GPS navigation system relies on knowing the state of Earth's rotation. Because weather and other factors affect Earth's rotation, the GPS system needs constant updating for accuracy. GPS gets its Earth rotation data from an array of radio telescopes distributed around the world. A very sensitive rotation sensor might complement the existing telescope array, providing data quickly and inexpensively.
Superfluid gyroscopes are devices that detect very small rotational motion. They use a specially-shaped, superfluid-filled vessel containing two aperture arrays; when the vessel rotates, the sound of the quantum whistle changes. This provides a telltale clue and allows for sensitive measures of the movements.
"This phenomenon may also permit scientists to develop very sensitive rotation sensors to measure small surface twisting signals created when an earthquake's vibrations travel through irregularities in the Earth's crust," Packard said. "In fact, we can take this concept even further. If seismologists can measure rotation signals from seismic activity on Mars, they might learn a lot about martian structure."
Packard and his colleagues have a history of hearing whistles while they work. Their experiments in 1997 and 2001, using liquid helium-3, produced a whistle. But the temperatures needed in those experiments were extremely low, just a few thousandths of a degree above absolute zero, which is almost one million times colder than average room temperature. Very few people are trained to work with such ultra-cold technology, which limits its potential applications.
Packard and graduate student Emile Hoskinson were especially excited because this latest phenomenon occurs at a relatively high temperature of 2 Kelvin, which is 2,000 times warmer than the previous helium-3 studies. This might make the technology available to more users with off-the-shelf cryocoolers.
This research was conducted under a grant from NASA and the National Science Foundation. The findings appeared in the January 27 issue of Nature. More information about Packard's research is online at http://www.physics.berkeley.edu/research/packard/.
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Houston Dynamo's skillful midfielder, Boniek García, already knows what it feels like to go play in Torreón, Mexico in the CONCACAF Champions League.
Garcia played at Torreon's Estadio Corona against Santos Laguna in the 2011-12 edition of the CONCACAF Champions League, when he was still playing for his Honduran club, Olimpia. His team lost 3-1 at Torreon before falling 4-3 on aggregate in their preliminary round series.
Despite the fact that Torreon has been a difficult place to play for both MLS and non-MLS teams, García feels optimistic about the Dynamo getting the necessary result on Wednesday to advance past Santos.
Español: La experiencia de García en la CCL puede ser fundamental en Torreón
"The truth is that the atmosphere is a very hostile atmosphere," the Honduran midfielder said after Houston's last training session before their trip. "Knowing what Santos means in Torreón, they are a very difficult team that is going to pressure us from the first minute, but we are going with the idea to play a great game. We have a minor advantage and we have to try to take care of it the best way possible."
The Dynamo enter Wednesday's match with a 1-0 lead in the series. If Houston wins, ties or losses by one goal (unless Santos wins 1-0), the Dynamo will advance to the Champions League for the first time since the 2008 Champions Cup.
García, who has played three of the five games in the 2012-13 competition, knows that it is going to be hard, but believes that the team is focused on progressing to the next stage. The Honduran midfielder hopes that his prior CCL experience will help the Dynamo in their quest to advance through the tournament. With Olimpia, Garcia participated in four consecutive Champions League competitions from 2008-2011.
"Being in Olimpia, we had a lot of interest [in winning the tournament]," he said. "I think that was also demonstrated here last Tuesday that there are bigger things like aspiring to the Club World Cup."


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Snap: Where's the Mall?
New signs, such as this one on Market Street at Lee Park, have just begun to dot the area surrounding the Downtown Mall to keep hapless visitors from circling for hours. The budget for the new "wayfinding" program–- which reaches out beyond the Mall–- reaches nearly half a million dollars.
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you see why i do what i do? stress man.... too much of it from the man. i'm gonna get involved and make a difference in politics 'round here. you know what my agenda will be ; )
ive been working for the city for four years now trying to earn full time position but gets laid off every year to what they claim as no money in the budget to hire a full time employee. I see where the money is going now, it really makes no sense and very fustrating....
In reference to the first reply above... if these signs end up costing $2,800+ each, they could have been done in engraved stone much cheaper. And there is no costly upkeep to the stone.
Mmmm...half million dollar of signs. Tasty. At least for the local graffiti artists. Just like a bit of fresh meat for them.
Whatever happened to low bids? These signs don't need to be the fanciest in the entire Country. It's just another waste of taxpayers' money; juat like the 'JUNK' that's been placed on the medians along the bypass. Another waste of our money is doing study after study of whether to dredge or build a new dam. The work could have been done years ago on what was spent on all these studies and the same for the Meadowcreek Parkway. Either do soame-thing or forget about it!
... and there is plenty of job security, too, "crozetite!"
How long do you think it will take for the poor "misguided youth" of Charlottesville ... the kids from the community that are being "offered nothing ... so they head to the mall and cause trouble." .. The ones that the teachers and school system have failed to teach respect to, ad nauseam ....... to vandalize those lovely signs? Then the sign makers can repair or replace them .. sounds like a lucrative business to be in!
MMMMMMMMMM. Lets see $200K for 70 signs = about $2800.00 per sign! I want to be a sign painter .Does UVA offer a masters in that ? Again that's what 4 + teachers salaries. Who on the board has a relative in the sign business ?


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France's public prosecution service said it was shelving an investigation into allegations that disgraced former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a man once tipped to become president of France, had engaged in group rape.
The prosecution service said in a statement it had taken the decision after a young woman retracted an allegation against the 63-year-old, who is also fighting wider accusations of sexual misdemeanor in France and a civil case in the United States.
Strauss-Kahn's legal team welcomed what amounted to a partial victory for their client, who has asked a court to end a wider French inquiry into sex parties organized out of the northern city of Lille, Reuters reports.
"This is a common sense decision," Richard Malka, a lawyer for Strauss-Kahn, told i>TELE television. "The fight goes on."
Strauss-Kahn was about to announce he would run for the French presidency when police arrested him in May 2011 in New York after a hotel maid alleged he had tried to rape her.
New York prosecutors dropped those charges, citing concerns about the credibility of the accuser, but hotel maid Nafissatou Diallo is now pursuing him in a civil case and his legal battles have piled up since his return to France.
In the so-called Carlton Affair, named after a luxury hotel in the northern French city of Lille, investigators are trying to establish whether Strauss-Kahn participated in sex parties to a degree that amounted to actively encouraging prostitution.
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Okay folks … the holidays are over!!! Whew … now it's time to get back into the routine, and what better way to start 2019 than with an abundance of snarkasm? Perhaps I will make it a tradition to begin every year with Snarky Snippets! 2019 deserves to be started in such a manner, for just a few hours into the year and just look at all that is wrong with the world! Let's begin with a man who I have long abhorred … Representative Peter T. King, a republican from New York.
Just last week …
Now, I first take issue with his statement that ICE is doing a great job, since only two children have died! ONLY??? What if one of those children had been your own, Mr. King??? But it goes even deeper than that, for also last week, video footage was obtained by The Arizona Republic from the Arizona Department of Health under the public records law. The videos show children being physically abused – dragged, slapped, and shoved – by staffers at Casa Padre, a migrant shelter operated by Southwest Key. The videos are from September, and the facility was shuttered in October after a number of violations, including failure to obtain background checks on staff members.
Another such facility, Casa Kokopelli, also operated by Southwest Key, has been charged with eleven sex offenses by a staff member against at least eight children in their care. ProPublica investigated Southwest Key and the sex offenses back in August, and when they asked Southwest Key representative Jeff Eller a question regarding how the company would assure children's safety in the future, Mr. Eller replied …
"We find the premise of your question dishonorable."
Say WHAT??? Who's the dishonourable party here? And Mr. King says they are all doing a great job because only two children have died so far.
This is not the first time Mr. King has crossed my radar, by the way. In May, I wrote a piece titled An Ugly Voice — Peter T. King. I will be writing a letter to Mr. King later today. Meanwhile, anyone want to lay odds that more children will die while held in U.S. custody in the coming year?
Without conscience …Remember Cindy Hyde-Smith, the racist woman who won a U.S. Senate seat in a special election in Mississippi in late November? She said she would happily attend a lynching, and made a host of other racist remarks, yet Trump called her a "fine woman" … I guess he meant that in the same vein as when he called the white supremacists and neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, "fine people". Anyway, after her blatantly and sinister racist remarks, a number of people who had donated to her campaign asked for their contributions back, not wishing to be affiliated with such a horrid person.
Aetna, AT&T, Boston Scientific, Facebook, Google, Leidos, Pfizer, Union Pacific, and Walmart all requested their donations back, but Cindy has, apparently, decided she would keep the money. Legally, she is under no obligation to return the money, and she seems to have no intention to do so. Surprised, aren't you?
How does he love thee?
Donald Trump claims to be on the side of the people … says he loves the people (just so long as they aren't democrats, African-Americans, Muslims, or gay) and just to show them how much he loves them, he has … frozen their pay! And some 800,000 of them aren't getting any pay right now, either, thanks to Uncle Donnie! I'm so happy that he doesn't love me!
In what was, I hope, his last 'executive order' of 2018, with a slash of his pen he played god and froze the salaries & wages of some 2.1 million federal workers! The military will still get their 2.6% pay increase (not the 10% Trump falsely told the soldiers in Iraq when he visited there at Christmas). Civilian federal workers were initially slated to receive a 2.1% increase, but back in the summer, Trump began saying that the government could not afford it. Funny, isn't it, that we can afford all Trump's excesses, covering Secret Service expenses for his sons as they flit about the world on Trump Organization business? We can afford Trump's near-weekly golf outings and trips to Mar-a-Lago, and he claims we can afford $5 billion to be thrown away on the beginnings of a useless border wall. But we cannot afford a lousy 2.1% pay increase for the men and women who work to keep the federal government running smoothly. Damn shame, if you ask me!
And what about last December's tax cut for the wealthy? If we could afford to give huge raises to multi-millionaires and billionaires, why can't we afford to give measly 2.1% pay increases to the woman who helps us sign up for Social Security, or to the man who keeps our planes from crashing, or the person teaching our children?
Congress can and likely will include raises for federal workers in any spending bill they propose after the new Congress is seated in two days, but speculation is that it will be for 1.9%, not 2.1%. Peanuts? Sure, but hey … 0.2% of a $60,000 salary means a lot more to the federal worker than the extra million or more the rich coal barons got via Trump's tax cuts.
I won't be surprised to see a bad case of the 'blue flu' before long in the departments of the federal government.
Okay … that concludes this morning's snippets. I just felt the need to show those in power that the 2019 Filosofa is not any kinder or gentler than the 2018 Filosofa was, and I will pursue truth and justice this year even more diligently than last! Look out, Trumpie … I'm in line right behind Bob Mueller for a pound of your flesh!


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By Andrew M. Seaman
The number of smokers lighting up on hospital grounds has fallen about seven percentage points since 1995, according to a new study.
"It is encouraging that there has been improvement, but it's discouraging that the nicotine replacement therapy has not been able to put more of a dent into this," said the study's lead author Susan Regan, an instructor of medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston.
The findings reflect the experience of Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital, where past research found that 25 percent of hospitalized smokers reported smoking on the grounds in 1995.
In the new study, which surveyed patients who smoked and were referred to the hospital's tobacco treatment program between 2007 to 2010, the researchers found that the number of smokers lighting up on hospital grounds during their entire stay fell to 18.4 percent.
One explanation for the decline, according to the researchers, is the increased use of nicotine replacement therapy patches, lozenges, gum and inhalers.
They write in the Archives of Internal Medicine that the use of nicotine replacement therapy at the hospital increased more than twelve-fold from 1995 to 2010.
However, they cannot say for certain that the therapy is the reason for the decline.
For example, the new study only included patients in the hospital's tobacco treatment program while the previous study included all patients who smoked. The researchers write that those who refused to take part in the program may have been more likely to sneak a smoke.
Regan told Reuters Health that an overall decline of smoking shouldn't directly influence their findings, because they only looked at the percentage of smokers who lit up.
As for smokers who still smoke while hospitalized, Regan told Reuters Health that some may just not be ready to quit.
"Many smokers are interested in quitting. Some are interested but not ready, and some are just not interested," she said.
In the new study, which followed about 5,400 smokers, the researchers found that certain characteristics were linked to a person being more likely to abstain from smoking, including being over 50 and having heart problems.
Smoke-free campus
The Joint Commission, a nonprofit group that accredits more than 19,000 hospitals and other healthcare facilities, already prohibits U.S. hospitals from allowing smoking in their buildings.
Patients and staff, however, may smoke outside the building, unless the hospital bans that too.
In Massachusetts General's case, the hospital allows people to smoke at two smoking shelters on its property, which is where Regan said smokers most likely lit up.
"I think that if you really want to completely eliminate smoking, you have to make the (hospital) campus smoke free, but you're also going to have to prevent patients from leaving the floor to smoke," said Regan.
But, she added that brings up other questions, including how to not burden already busy nurses.
"There is no easy solution to this, but clearly making the campus smoke free is a step in the right direction," she said.
Dr. Steven Schroeder, who wrote an editorial accompanying the new study, agreed that smoke-free campuses are a good idea.
"There are many hospitals now that are making themselves totally smoke free. You may say that's not fair to the patient, but we can offer them nicotine replacement therapy," said Schroeder, of the University of California, San Francisco.
Regan warns, however, that these results are only based on one hospital, and the conditions it faces may not be the same as others.
"If you did it in a warm weather state, you might find more patients who are more likely to go out and smoke. But we don't know," said Regan.
More from NBCNews.com health:
Controversial chelation therapy might help some heart patients
Heartbeat, not battery, may one day power a pacemaker


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A9 TV is closely linked to the way of the Mahdi. Hazrat Ali made the sign 9 when speaking of the Mahdi. I have also been an instrument in A9, through the wisdom of Allah. That means he referred to a channel, A9, that the followers of the Mahdi would make use of. There really is no channel like it. It is packed full, and there are no empty words in it. It is always positive, rational, hopeful, inclusive and auspicious.
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Before setting off, I now check INRIX Traffic. I don't use it while I'm driving, but it seems to do a decent job of telling me which of New York's highways to choose from. Since there are at least three highways going to any one place, I have a lot of options. Knowing which route has had an accident can save me a ton of time.
But I only got Inrix because it's free. Surely you know a better app for driving, whether it be for traffic or speed traps or figuring out what's on the radio or whatever else. What app is your favorite?
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Registered investment advisors are the busiest participants in the mergers and acquisitions arena so far in 2013, Pershing Advisor Solutions says in its latest report.
Despite unfavorable dealmaking conditions, most deals so far in 2013 have consisted of an RIA entering into a "one-off" transaction with another RIA or an RIA making a series of acquisitions, Pershing says in its updated M&A report, finding that RIA-to-RIA deals were 60% more likely this year.
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"The confidence of RIA owners to make additional investments within their industry continues to grow, despite more tepid interest from outside investors," Pershing said in its midyear update. "This year, chances have been almost 60% greater that an RIA deal will involve another advisory firm. Thus far in 2013, transactions among advisory firm owners accounted for 58% of all RIA deal activity, which is up sharply from 37% of deals through all of 2012."
Following a flurry of activity at the end of 2012, the first half of 2013 saw only a moderate number of deals and assets exchanged, and with a few noteworthy exceptions, the deals involved smaller firms, Pershing reported. Twelve transactions targeted retail-focused RIAs with at least $50 million in assets under management (AUM) or $500,000 in annual revenues. The six-month total was three fewer transactions than occurred in the fourth quarter of 2012, when deals were rushed to completion in anticipation of more favorable tax treatment prior to potential rule changes in 2013.
The level of recent activity registered a slight increase as a result of one large second-quarter transaction: the purchase of Atlantic Trust Private Wealth Management, comprising more than two-thirds of the total first half of the year's assets. CIBC, the Canadian financial institution, announced in April that it would acquire Atlantic Trust for $210 million in an all-cash transaction.
But overall, the first half of 2013 continued the RIA-to-RIA trend.
"As advisory firms initiate a larger share of deals, the other buyer types have significantly decreased in activity in 2013," according to the report. "Serial acquirers accounted for only 25% of deals in the first half of the year, down from 32% of deals in the second half of 2012. Bank and trust firms have also slowed their RIA acquisitions, with only one purchase made in the entire first half of 2013."
Recent noteworthy RIA-to-RIA deals cited in the Pershing report included: Highland Capital Management's January merger with wealth manager Argent Financial Group, bringing total combined assets to about $4 billion; Exencial Wealth Advisors' January acquisition of $190 million RIA Investors Asset Management; Atlanta Capital Group's January purchase of $141 million in assets managed by RIA Optimum Growth Advisors; and Banyan Partners' June purchase of RIA Silver Bridge Advisors, which added $1.9 billion in AUM.
Read Pershing's Collaborative Culture and CEO DeCicco's Priorities from Insite 2013 at ThinkAdvisor.


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Mariah Carey Premieres New Song 'You Don't Know What to Do' Live on 'Today' [VIDEO]
Mariah Carey surprised 'Today' audiences by premiering a new song, 'You Don't Know What to Do,' from her upcoming studio album.
The seasoned singer performed a three-song set at the Toyota Summer Concert Series, including her hits 'Touch My Body' and 'Always Be My Baby.' To mix up the old with the new, Mariah broke out a previously unheard song from her fourteenth (wow!) album, set for release on May 27.
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A shipment of human heads bound for Fort Worth, Texas, remained in Little Rock, Ark., Thursday after a Southwest Airlines employee opened the package and called police.
The Fort Worth medical-research company where the heads were expected, Medtronic, said the 40 to 60 heads are for educational purposes.
It's not unusual for an airline to ship bodies, or body parts, for medical research.
The problem was the heads were not properly packaged or labeled.
Southwest Airlines said a courier showed up with the package and claimed to not know the contents.
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